Timber-colonizing gram-negative bacteria as potential causative agents of respiratory diseases in woodworkers

ConclusionSummarizing, Gram-negative bacteria-inhabiting timber should be considered, besides filamentous fungi and actinobacteria, as important risk factors of occupational disease in woodworkers that could be either HP with allergenic background or toxic pneumonitis elicited by endotoxin.
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research